Jan 12 Watch Former ‘Home Run King’ Admits Steroid Use, Reignites Scandal in Pro Sports Mark McGwire admitted Monday to using steroids when he broke Major League Baseball's home run record in 1998. Kwame Holman updates the story on drug use among athletes. Continue watching
Jan 11 Listen to McGwire Confess Steroid Use Sports fans are abuzz over former baseball superstar Mark McGwire's admission that he used performance-enhancing steroids today. You can now hear 22 minutes of the slugger's conversation with reporter Joe Strauss via the Associated Press: Earlier today, we spoke… Continue reading
Jan 11 Do You Know Where Your News Was Gathered? By Dave Gustafson Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism stopped by The Rundown to talk about where news originates amid today’s changing media environment. His organization’s “How News Happens” study examined the “news ecosystem” of Baltimore to track whether… Continue reading
Jan 11 McGwire Admits to Steroid Use During Record-Setting Season Baseball slugger Mark McGwire admitted Monday that he was on steroids when he broke the major league single-season home run record in 1998. McGwire admitted to more than a decade of use "during a 20-minute… Continue reading
Jan 11 On Monday’s NewsHour… GAY MARRIAGE - The battle over gay marriage moved to Federal Court in California today, where two gay men and two gay women are challenging the state's ban on gay marriage, and are hoping to take the issue all the… Continue reading
Jan 08 On Friday’s NewsHour… JOBS NUMBERS - December's unemployment report was published early this morning, and showed the country losing a net 85,000 jobs - worse than analysts had been expecting. On the program tonight, we'll talk to David Leonhardt of the New… Continue reading
Jan 07 Obama: ‘The Buck Stops With Me’ on National Security By Dave Gustafson President Obama said Thursday afternoon that in regard to terror threats against the United States, "the buck stops with me." He suggested that nobody would be fired as a result of the attempted airliner attack on Christmas, saying that the… Continue reading
Jan 07 Al-Qaida Says CIA Killings Payback for Pakistan Drone Strikes By Larisa Epatko Al-Qaida claimed responsibility on Thursday for last month's attack on a base in Khost, Afghanistan, that killed seven CIA agents. According to Islamist Web sites, the attack was "revenge" for U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. Continue reading
Jan 07 On Thursday’s NewsHour… BOMB PLOT REPORT - We'll have full coverage of the White House report on the attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day and reaction from former National Security Council staff members Richard Clarke and Juan… Continue reading